I gave up on hunting NJ during the firearms season, too dangerous. Too many clubs "hunting" with 80-100 man drives, firing buckshot every which way. Guys get shot every year.
In MD, I hunt private land, but it's the same type of thing. The stand I'll be in Saturday is way back in a marsh along a river, and I hear the same guy every year across the river with a full automatic. He fires about 10 shot bursts out in the marsh, probably just spraying at deer hundreds of yards away, I must hear 4 or 5 bursts from him every year. That's why I hunt opening day, and that's it. Any vacation I use during bow season, and blackpowder season.


"In heaven, even the fish have antlers"